PM @theresa_may confirms the UK will leave the EU customs union, but wants to ensure "near frictionless" trade and avoid hard border in Ireland, and there are many ways in which these goals can be delivered

PM @theresa_may confirms the UK will leave the EU customs union, but wants to ensure "near frictionless" trade and avoid hard border in Ireland, and there are many ways in which these goals can be delivered

An RAF airstrike against three Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria on March 26 "unintentionally" killed a civilian, UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has said in a written ministerial statement

UK says it killed a civilian by mistake in an airstrike in March against 3 Isis fighters in Syria. This is 1st confirmation by @DefenceHQ that @RoyalAirForce has caused a civilian death in counter-Isis fight in Iraq and Syria. It comes amid concerns there are likely more

Suspicious package found in Westminster near Department for Transport office is non-hazardous, Scotland Yard tell. Lots of police activity and evacuations. Will take a while for officers to wind down their response and lift the cordon.

PM @theresa_may confirms the UK will leave the EU customs union, but wants to ensure "near frictionless" trade and avoid hard border in Ireland, and there are many ways in which these goals can be delivered

UK Prime Minister Theresa May says Government will be providing more information on its handling of the Windrush scandal and will bring forward a package of measures to reassure migrants about their rights

Davis: (on Coveneys understanding of full alignment). The previous words in the Joint Report [which were removed] related to harmonisation, unacceptable to us. We'll have to address this for each of the NS strands: agriculture for example: Ireland is a single epidemiological unit

Davis: a huge change in technology in the past 20 years. Following 9/11 there were new security issues, but it was old technology, but this is not the case today, electronic prenotification is very common

Davis: if you're a small business you probably don't send the product youself, you'll use an intermediary. If you *do*, then you shd be capable of being an Authorised Economic Operator [ie, trusted trader]

Davis: in the event we get an FTA there will be no tariffs [ie between North and South]. It won't be a tariff issue, it will be a regulatory + rules of origin issue. That's a single market issue, not a customs union issue

Davis: we view leaving the EU as leaving the SM and CU. That's what the British people were told in the referendum by both sides of the arguement. Cameron, Osborne, Johnson, Gove all said that's what it means

Davis: We are starting the negotiations on the future relationship right now. But the signature of the future framework treaty will happen after March because we won't be a third country till then. I hope to conclude the negotiations by then - then sign after

Davis: we're interested in being part of the EU aviation safety agency. The Swiss can certify an aircraft, judgements on safety etc, that's negotiated in a Swiss court - but we'll struggle to have something like that

UK Brexit Secretary Davis: we're aiming for October (for agreement on outstanding issues), it was not laid out in March that June was the deadline. The Commission likes to put time pressure on us. We can't guarantee June

UK Brexit Secretary Davis: the transition period is not for further negotiation, we have to have the future trade agreement nailed down before it starts. We need a substantive agreement in October in terms of the political declaration

UK Brexit Secretary Davis: Northen Ireland is clearly highly controversial. We stand by the words of the Joint Report in December but we don't agree with the Commission's interpretation of it. We're still working on that

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